Inhalt: Praise for The Perfect Bride for Mr. Darcy: Another superior Jane Austen homage...will entertain those who already know their Austen and Georgette Heyer by heart, as well as fans of old-fashioned romance. When Mr. Darcy realizes he insulted Miss Elizabeth Bennet at the Meryton Assembly, he feels duty bound to seek her out and apologize...When he has INSULTED a LADY But instead of meekly accepting his apology, Elizabeth stands up to him, and Darcy realizes with a shock that she is a very different type of lady than he is used to...Darcy is more intrigued than he's ever been by any young lady, but he's already entangled in a courtship. It's a brutal predicament for a man of honor who only longs to follow his heart... Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 373 S. Beteiligte:Simonsen, Mary Lydon Standort: Engl. Sim ISBN: 978-1-4022-4616-6
Inhalt: Movie tie-in edition of the Sparks classic Travis Parker has everything a man could want: a good job; loyal friends; his dream home in small-town North Carolina. In full pursuit of the good life, he believes that a serious relationship with a woman would only cramp his style. That is until Gabby Holland moves in next door. Despite Travis's attempts to be friendly, she seems to have a chip on her shoulder about him. But something compels Travis to get to know his new neighbour. His persistent efforts lead them both to make tough decisions, the consequences of which neither could have foreseen. The Choice confronts us with that most heart-wrenching question of all: how far would you go to keep the hope of love alive? Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 342 Seiten Beteiligte:Sparks, Nicholas Standort: Engl. Spa ISBN: 978-0-7515-6226-2
Inhalt: Steel's novel invites readers into the ultra-glamorous world of a five-star New York hotel, and brings to vivid life the man who builds it as his dream, the girl who grows up in its loving embrace, and the colorful guests and staff who make its magic complete. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 323 S. Beteiligte:Steel, Danielle Standort: Engl. Stee ISBN: 978-0-593-06308-8
Inhalt: Mississippi, 1962: Nach dem Studium verbringt Skeeter die Tage auf der elterlichen Baumwollfarm, als einzige ihrer Freundinnen ohne einen Ring am Finger. Und dann ist auch noch ihr geliebtes Kindermädchen spurlos verschwunden. Skeeter wünscht sich nur eins: Sie will weg aus dem engen Jackson und als Journalistin in New York leben. Um etwas zu verändern, verbündet sie sich mit zwei schwarzen Dienstmädchen: Aibileen zieht die Kinder ihrer Arbeitgeber auf. Das Tafelsilber darf sie aber nicht berühren. Und Minny ist auf der Suche nach einer neuen Stelle. Sie ist bekannt für ihre Kochkünste, aber sie ist auch gefürchtet: Denn Minny trägt das Herz auf der Zunge. Gemeinsam beschließen die drei Frauen, gegen die Konventionen ihrer Zeit zu verstoßen und etwas zu wagen. Denn sie alle haben das Gefühl zu ersticken und wollen etwas verändern in ihrer Stadt und in ihrem eigenen Leben. Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone.
Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken.
Minny, Aibileens best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobodys business, but she cant mind her tongue, so shes lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own.
Seemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.
In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way womenmothers, daughters, caregivers, friendsview one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope, The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we dont. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 453 S. Beteiligte:Stockett, Kathryn Standort: Engl. Sto ISBN: 978-0-425-24429-6
Inhalt: The director of the library in Rocky Beach has disappeared! It quickly becomes clear: She followed the mysterious signs of a ghost-like appearance on the Internet. Where could she have been lured? What kind of message did she receive? Justus, Peter and Bob must carefully investigate in order to solve the riddle behind the librarian's disappearance.
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Aus dem Deutschen ins amerikanische Englisch übertragen von Chris und Tracey Huber Systematik: Engl. 5.1 Umfang: 138 Seiten Beteiligte:Vollenbruch, Astrid Standort: Engl. 5.1 Dre ISBN: 978-3-440-11874-0
Inhalt: NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST SHORT-LISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE Brace yourself for the most astonishing, challenging, upsetting, and profoundly moving book in many a season. An epic about love and friendship in the twenty-first century that goes into some of the darkest places fiction has ever traveled and yet somehow improbably breaks through into the light. Truly an amazement-and a great gift for its readers.
When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor; JB, a quick-witted, sometimes cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent firm; and withdrawn, brilliant, enigmatic Jude, who serves as their center of gravity. Over the decades, their relationships deepen and darken, tinged by addiction, success, and pride. Yet their greatest challenge, each comes to realize, is Jude himself, by midlife a terrifyingly talented litigator yet an increasingly broken man, his mind and body scarred by an unspeakable childhood, and haunted by what he fears is a degree of trauma that he'll not only be unable to overcome-but that will define his life forever. In rich and resplendent prose, Yanagihara has fashioned a tragic and transcendent hymn to brotherly love, a masterful depiction of heartbreak, and a dark examination of the tyranny of memory and the limits of human endurance. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 816 Seiten Beteiligte:Yanagihara, Hanya Standort: Engl. Yan ISBN: 978-1-101-97242-7
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